| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Figures and tables | 第8-10页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第10-14页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第14-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第18-31页 |
| ·Introduction | 第18-20页 |
| ·Definitions of metaphor | 第20-23页 |
| ·A systemic-cognitive perspective on Grammatical metaphor in news report | 第23-29页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor and context as a system | 第24-27页 |
| ·A metaphor on grammatical level | 第27-28页 |
| ·Dynamics of grammatical metaphor | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter 2 Interpretation of metaphor and grammatical metaphor | 第31-52页 |
| ·Historical background | 第31-35页 |
| ·Aristotle on metaphor | 第31-33页 |
| ·Substitution theory and comparison theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·Interaction theory | 第34-35页 |
| ·Recent developments of metaphor theories | 第35-48页 |
| ·Cognitive theories of metaphor | 第35-38页 |
| ·Systemic-functional approach to grammatical metaphor | 第38-48页 |
| ·Experiential and logical metaphor | 第40-44页 |
| ·Interpersonal metaphor | 第44-46页 |
| ·Textual metaphor | 第46-47页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor as interrelated system in context | 第47-48页 |
| ·A dynamic approach to grammatical metaphor in news reporting: summary | 第48-51页 |
| ·Scope of grammatical metaphor | 第48-49页 |
| ·linguistic perspective of grammatical metaphor | 第49页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor in thought | 第49-50页 |
| ·Systemic grammatical metaphor | 第50-51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 3 News Reporting as Discourse | 第52-75页 |
| ·News reporting as communication | 第52-54页 |
| ·Approaches to news reporting | 第54-63页 |
| ·Linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis | 第55页 |
| ·Conversational analysis | 第55-56页 |
| ·Semiotic analysis | 第56-57页 |
| ·Critical linguistics and sociosemiotics | 第57-60页 |
| ·Van Dijk's social-cognitive model | 第60-62页 |
| ·Critical approach to news reporting | 第62-63页 |
| ·News reporting as structure and process | 第63-72页 |
| ·News production as choice process of source information | 第64-71页 |
| ·Interpretation of news gathering processes | 第64-67页 |
| ·Cognitive processing of news reporting | 第67-68页 |
| ·Social context and discourse processing | 第68-71页 |
| ·News reporting as a dynamic structure | 第71-72页 |
| ·Towards a systemic-cognitive analysis to news reporting | 第72-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-75页 |
| Chapter 4 Grammatical Metaphor in News Reporting as Meaning Representation | 第75-112页 |
| ·Clause as the foundation of study | 第75-80页 |
| ·Systemic-functional perspective | 第75-77页 |
| ·Cognitive linguists' viewpoint | 第77-79页 |
| ·The functional organization of clause | 第79-80页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor as alternative to meaning representation | 第80-85页 |
| ·Types of process in English and constituent elements | 第80-83页 |
| ·Ergativity and grammatical metaphor | 第83-85页 |
| ·Difficulties with the systemic-functional view of grammatical Metaphor from a cognitive perspective | 第85-93页 |
| ·The problem of scope: where a metaphorical meaning begins and ends | 第85-86页 |
| ·The problematic nature of a congruent meaning | 第86-87页 |
| ·Congruent language and the problem of literality | 第87-89页 |
| ·Congruent language as the representation of the physical experience in which abstract thought is conceptualised | 第89-90页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor as the product of a conceptual hierarchy: Process as actor | 第90-93页 |
| ·Systemic-cognitive interpretation of grammatical metaphor in news reporting as representation | 第93-101页 |
| ·Instructional semantics | 第93-95页 |
| ·Faith or fake: grammatical metaphor as an inclination for subjectification in news reporting | 第95-97页 |
| ·Context dependency | 第97-101页 |
| ·Bridging the gap: a systemic-cognitive framework to experiential metaphor | 第101-106页 |
| ·Nominalization in transitivity system | 第106-111页 |
| ·Nominalization as ideational metaphor | 第108-109页 |
| ·Nominalization in news reporting as message | 第109-111页 |
| ·Summary | 第111-112页 |
| Chapter 5 Grammatical Metaphor in News Reporting as Exchange and Information | 第112-141页 |
| ·Introduction | 第112-113页 |
| ·Interpersonal metaphors in news reporting | 第113-126页 |
| ·Modality and grammatical metaphor | 第113-120页 |
| ·Definitions of modality | 第114-115页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor of modality | 第115-118页 |
| ·Grammatical metaphor of mood | 第118-120页 |
| ·Cognition and interpersonal metaphor | 第120-126页 |
| ·Textual metaphor in news reporting | 第126-139页 |
| ·Theme and Rheme versus Given and New information | 第126-128页 |
| ·Cognition and metaphorical construal of message | 第128-131页 |
| ·Generic metaphor | 第131-139页 |
| ·Summary | 第139-141页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第141-146页 |
| Bibliography | 第146-155页 |
